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They said they stopped using arsenic decades ago.
Her mother, Maude, was not above using arsenic on Caldonia's father to make sure their slaves were not freed, and she expects comparable determination from her daughter.
"They started using arsenic and some other pretty scary things to control pests in the early part of the last century," she said.
Farmers using arsenic dusts over long periods have been afflicted with chronic poisoning; livestock have been poisoned by crop sprays or weed killers containing arsenic.
I've been asked a few times recently about the plot of Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers and if it is a plausible way of using arsenic to kill.
In the paper, a team of scientists described a species of bacteria that seemed to defy the known rules of biology by using arsenic instead of phosphorus to build its DNA.
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The results of this study indicate that flood irrigation using arsenic-contaminated groundwater should be controlled and gradually replaced by drip irrigation, sprinkler irrigation or irrigation using non-contaminated water resources to mitigate arsenic accumulation in the unsaturated zone and shallow groundwater.
To understand the mechanism, researchers are using arsenic-73 to find genes that metabolize arsenic and to explore how these metabolites enter cells and damage DNA.
Arsenic speciation and bioavailability are therefore critical parameters for reducing uncertainties when estimating exposure from the consumption of rice grown and cooked using arsenic-contaminated water.
Many of the scientists opposed to new regulation receive funding from industries that use arsenic.
In 2010 a paper in Science suggested that a bacterium in Mono Lake, California, used arsenic instead of phosphorus in its genetic code and represented a new form of life.
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